Cataclysm Classic Feral Druid DPS Leveling

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Your first talent point unlocks at Level 10.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for much improved quality of life while leveling.

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for much improved quality of life while leveling. Get two points into Feral Aggression in order to instantly apply the maximum armor debuff with Faerie Fire (Feral).

Start by picking some useful passives, including 30% more movement speed from Feral Swiftness. Follow up with Furor for much improved quality of life while leveling. Get two points into Feral Aggression in order to instantly apply the maximum armor debuff with Faerie Fire (Feral), and finish the early leveling with two points into Predatory Strikes for a huge increase in your opener damage and to enable instant healing while leveling.

Pick up two points into Primal Fury.

Pick up two points into Primal Fury and the combination of Feral Charge and Stampede.

Pick up two points into Primal Fury and the combination of Feral Charge and Stampede, as well as the critical King of the Jungle talent.

Pick up two points into Primal Fury and the combination of Feral Charge and Stampede, as well as the critical King of the Jungle talent and raid buff Leader of the Pack.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts. You can also improve your defenses a ton with Thick Hide.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts. You can also improve your defenses a ton with Thick Hide. Pick up more useful passives such as Primal Madness.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts. You can also improve your defenses a ton with Thick Hide. Pick up more useful passives such as Primal Madness and Infected Wounds.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts. You can also improve your defenses a ton with Thick Hide. Pick up more useful passives such as Primal Madness, Infected Wounds, and the first point in Rend and Tear.

Follow up by maximizing Fury Swipes and get your main defensive, Survival Instincts. You can also improve your defenses a ton with Thick Hide. Pick up more useful passives such as Primal Madness, Infected Wounds, and the first point in Rend and Tear on the way to your capstone DPS cooldown Berserk.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild. Get Endless Carnage also, now that you can learn Savage Roar.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild. Get Endless Carnage also, now that you can learn Savage Roar, and finish Rend and Tear.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild and Natural Shapeshifter. Get Endless Carnage also, now that you can learn Savage Roar, and finish Rend and Tear.

Finish your leveling talents by picking up the best passives from the Restoration tree, such as Heart of the Wild, Natural Shapeshifter and the powerful Master Shapeshifter. Get Endless Carnage also, now that you can learn Savage Roar, and finish Rend and Tear.

Your leveling glyphs are mostly the same as your endgame glyphs with a few exceptions that are better for leveling, such as Glyph of Mangle and Glyph of Ferocious Bite. Glyphs can be a huge boost to your DPS capabilities as some glyphs greatly improve the baseline power of your key abilities.

1. Glyph of Mangle — increases the damage of Mangle, which is very useful while leveling.
2. Glyph of Berserk — increases the duration of your Berserk by 10 seconds.
3. Glyph of Tiger's Fury — reduces the cooldown on Tiger's Fury by 3 seconds, allowing you to deal burst damage with it more often.

1. Glyph of Thorns — you will be likely to fight many enemies at once while solo leveling, making Thorns surprisingly strong for extra damage.
2. Glyph of Ferocious Bite — makes your Ferocious Bite heal you, reducing downtime.
3. Glyph of Feral Charge — reduces the cooldown of Feral Charge, increasing your mobility.

1. Glyph of Mark of the Wild — reduces the Mana cost of Mark of the Wild by 50% which makes it cheaper to cast when buffing someone recently resurrected.
2. Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth — removes the reagent requirement from Rebirth, saving some gold over time.
3. Glyph of Dash — reduces the cooldown of Dash by 20%, increasing your potential mobility in the process.

Make sure to debuff enemies with Faerie Fire (Feral) during your opener, especially if they are particularly tough ones such as elites.

Make sure to keep yourself buffed with Mark of the Wild and debuff enemies with Faerie Fire (Feral) during your opener.

Defensive cooldowns such as Survival Instincts should be used whenever you drop low or are facing heavy damage.

Defensive cooldowns such as Barkskin and Survival Instincts should be used whenever you drop low or are facing heavy damage.

1. Use Tiger's Fury when available while you are under 40 Energy;
2. If Berserk is available and 15 or more seconds remain on Tiger's Fury's cooldown, auto-attack until ~90 Energy and use Berserk;
3. Keep Mangle's debuff on your target if you are the source of the bleed debuff;
4. Use Ferocious Bite at 4+ Combo Points;
5. Use and refresh (after it expires) Savage Roar;
6. Use and refresh (after it expires) Rake;
7. Feral Charge on cooldown and use the free Ravage you get from Stampede;
8. Use Claw for the early levels.
9. Use Mangle to build Combo Points.
10. Use Shred (or Mangle if you cannot attack from behind the target) to build Combo Points.
11. Use Wrath for the early levels.

For area-of-effect damage you will use a different rotation:

1. Use Tiger's Fury when available while you are under 40 Energy;
2. If Berserk is available and 15 or more seconds remain on Tiger's Fury's cooldown, auto-attack until ~90 Energy and use Berserk;
3. Use and refresh (after it expires) Savage Roar, using Rake to build a combo point for it if needed;
4. Use Swipe.

While leveling, you will not need to use all of your spells. Many can be skipped to save gold and trained at a later date, when you have more gold available to you. We recommend to not train these spells below, and save your gold for gear, glyphs and mounts instead.

• Entangling Roots
• Starfire
• Insect Swarm
• Nourish
• Hurricane
• Lifebloom

Congratulations on hitting Level 85 in Cataclysm! Now that your leveling process is over, you can learn more about maximum level Feral DPS gameplay by reading our detailed guide below.